RQ took more than 150 greyhounds from three different kennels into its care, after their owners were implicated in the scandal. Photo: Craig Golding

Members resolved to issue show cause notices to seven trainers. They have seven days to respond or be banned from the sport for life.

The other six will continue to be investigated as they serve indefinite suspensions.

Earlier Tuesday afternoon RQ took more than 150 greyhounds from three different kennels into its care, after their owners were implicated in the scandal.

RQ chief executive Darren Condon said the board also voted to remove accused live baiter Reg Kay from the sport's hall of fame, cancel the upcoming awards night scheduled for March 13 and provide an unlimited budget for an investigation into the sport.

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He said the task force established to stamp out the cruel practices and would include police, the Racing Integrity Commission and hopefully the RSPCA.

Police involvement was critical, he said, because previously the sport's investigators were only able to enter registered greyhound racing tracks.

The track at the centre of the scandal in Queensland was not registered.

"I certainly don't want to table that as an excuse," he said.

"At this stage, we're certainly not burying our head in the sand.

"We're only aware of it at one venue but we will seek to see whether it's at more venues than that and look to eradicate it completely.

"It just can not under any circumstance go on if the sport is to continue."

Mr Condon said it would be the most wide-ranging investigation the sport had ever seen to address the most serious issue it had ever faced.

He said he was sickened by the footage and understood the outrage in the community.

"I think the wider view is that the community is saying an industry that operates like this cannot continue and I fundamentally agree with that," he said.

"We need to change and change rapidly if we seek to continue operation.

"I can't begin to tell you how the footage made me feel. It was just disgraceful, deplorable.

"I'd like to think I live in a community where people are incapable of doing that but sadly that's not the case."

RSPCA investigators last week raided the property of trainer Tom Noble, where a spokesman said two piglets were found, one in a hessian bag and one with a wound on its back.

The trainer later confessed to using pigs as bait on his farm west of Ipswich to Nine News, saying "normally we only use a feral pig".

"It looked really bad," he said of the footage.

"You feel a bit ashamed of it when you see it."

The RSPCA has indicated it is likely to charge Mr Noble and possibly other trainers.

Mr Condon said it was too early to say whether more trainers would be issued show cause notices but the the six suspended trainers' involvement was still being investigated.